[DID NOT ATTEND: August 13, 2022] Holy Fuck / Gus Englehorn
Back in 2022, I was really excited to see Holy Fuck.
The show was postponed, and then rescheduled but it was rescheduled to a date that I couldn’t make. Now four years later they’re back at KFN (with their first album in all that time). But my family was going to see The Last Dinner Party (which was a much higher priority).
They’ve always been an electronic band–with weird touches of psychedelics thrown together. And evidently they were more popular than I realized [I had no idea their music was used in Breaking Bad and Mr. Robot]. The new album is somehow catchier and weirder. And I’ll bet they are a lot of fun live. Well, I guess in 2030 they’ll be back again.
Gus Englehorn is a former pro snowboarder reborn as a nomadic psych-pop prophet, Englehorn has lived a rollercoaster life that reads like one of the fantastical fables that fill his songbook.
Gus is a wonderful weirdo, making music that few people make and if possible, I think fewer people buy. He writes pretty catchy melodies, but his lyrics are bizarre narratives. It makes a ton of sense that his last two albums were produced by Paul Leary from The Butthole Surfers.
I hope he’s really fun live.
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